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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—In the past 18 months nearly £10,000 has been taken from a secret gold mine in Wedderburn, 150 miles from Melbourne. The secret was revealed yesterday with the story that Bert Smith,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday.—The employment of thousands of men in Newcastle heavy industries this week depends on the amount of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Miners' Federation has agreed with the Joint Coal Board for a mass T.B. survey of all engaged in the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Monday—Gold production last year in Australia was the highest since 1942, the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. Roland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Hundreds of gold seekers from all over Victoria are flocking to the small township of Wedderburn, where a 75 ounce nugget of gold was unearthed 10 days ago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Joint Coal Board does not believe there will be a shortage of coal over the Easter holiday period. This is providing N.S.W. mine discussion between the parties,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Despite heavy production losses in open-cut mines through floods, enough coal would be available tomorrow to last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Near record production is expected on the N.S.W. coalfields tomorrow when mineworkers resume after their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coal owners today made a strong attack on the Joint Coal Board, which controls the coal industry in N.S.W. They accused the Coal Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) tomorrow morning will deliver two important reserved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. K. A. Cameron) today denied that the board had adopted a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Wedderburn's Presbyterian Minister has been gripped by the town's gold fever, and he has begun to dig up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.— The Miners' Federation is expected to consider general strike action if coal owners attempt to mechanically extract pillar coal from mines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ANTWERP, Friday (AAP).—Customs officials who yesterday found gold worth £107,000 sterling hidden in cooking fat cargo on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Miners' leaders today made plans to prevent coal owners from using machines to extract pillar coal from underground mines in three States…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Friday (AAP).—Confidence that the United States would win the cold war struggle with Russia without sacrificing any democratic freedoms, was voiced by the Defence Secretary (Mr. Louis…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—General industry and essential services in N.S.W. face an acute coal shortage this winter. Joint Coal Board figures show that most major coal consumers now hold less than one week's supply, which will be further reduced during the next few weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Monday.—India is looking to Australia as an everincreasing market for its ample coal supplies, the manager of the ship…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WITH RATIONING likely on a scale not previously experienced, the Far North Coast seems fated to share the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?]NEY, Wednesday.—A move for a general stoppage of an Northern N.S.W. mines one day a week as a protest over the p[?]lar…
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